This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.

This power point goes through curriculum mapping and other curriculum structures.

This handout gives activities and strategies for general differentiation.

I found these samples (based on Wallingford Public Schools) to be helpful for a foundation, but I don't know that I would use them as is for high school unless it was for an introductory lesson.

This is a pdf. article that offers more information about writing essential questions.

I was able to find this online, which has given me some great foundational idea for the book that I would like to design a UbD unit for in this class